Recent advances in metal nitrides as high-performance electrode materials for energy storage devices

Balogun, Muhammad‐Sadeeq; Qiu, Weitao; Wang, Wang; Fang, Ping‐Ping; Lu, Xihong; Tong, Yexiang

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“…Among all the reported metal nitrides in energy storage, TiN and Fe 2 N received particular attention due to their high capacitance (Fe 2 N as lithium ion battery anode: ≈900 mAh g −1 ; TiN as supercapacitor cathode: ≈150 F g −1 ) and electrical conductivity. [ 15,16 ] Various types of TiN nanostructures have been employed as supercapacitive electrode such as nanoparticle, [ 13 ] nanotube, [17][18][19] mesoporous microsphere, [ 20 ] and nanosheets. [ 21 ] However, TiN was found to be easily oxidized in aqueous solutions …”

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All Metal Nitrides Solid‐State Asymmetric Supercapacitors

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“…Metal carbides and nitrides present good resistance against corrosion, and very high cohesive strength and hardness, associated with their extremely high melting points. These properties associated with their chemical characteristics make them an alternative to noble metals in catalysis [1,2], and to metal oxides under harsh conditions [3,4]. Among non-oxide ceramics, titanium carbides (TiC) and titanium nitrides (TiN) have been specially considered a promise hard material with excellent properties such as high thermal and electrical conductivity and good wear resistance, so it has been regularly deposited on bulk iron based materials to improve the surface features.…”

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Improvement of TiN nanoparticles EPD inducing steric stabilization in non-aqueous suspensions

Mendoza

González

Castro

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Journal of the European Ceramic Society

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Abstract:In this work, the process parameters involved in the electrophoretic deposition (EPD) to obtain thin TiN films was studied and optimised. The stability of commercial TiN nanopowder in isopropyl alcohol adding a cationic polymer (polyethylenimine) as dispersant, with different molecular weights, was investigated to determine the kinetics of the deposition and to reach the most efficient EPD process. Cathodic EPD was performed over electro-polished stainless steel substrates. It was found that the provided dispersion when the PEI with the highest molecular weight was added to the suspension, leads to the best deposition behaviour for short times. New flocculation phenomena were described which affect to the sticking factor, and thus to the evolution of the EPD kinetics. As a result of the designed stabilization system, a reliable and versatile EPD method to produce well consolidated nano-TiN coatings at 1200• C in vacuum atmosphere was described.

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“…Accordingly, several research groups considered materials such as MXenes 29,30 and transition metal nitrides. [31][32][33][34][35][36][37] In the latter class of compounds, molybdenum nitride was firstly investigated 32,33,35,38,39 and in the past decade a great deal of attention has focused on other nitrides with an intensive focus on vanadium nitride 37,[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58] as a consequence of the impressive capacitance of 1340 F.g −1 reported for nanosized VN particles in 1 M KOH. 58 Indeed, VN is an interesting electrode material due to this high reported specific capacitance coupled with its close to metallic electronic conductivity (1.18 S.m −1 ), 59 high density (6.13 g.cm −3 ) and high melting point (2619 K).…”

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Suitable Conditions for the Use of Vanadium Nitride as an Electrode for Electrochemical Capacitor

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Borjon-Piron

Porto

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J. Electrochem. Soc.

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Vanadium nitride has displayed many interesting characteristics for its use as a pseudocapacitive electrode in an electrochemical capacitor, such as good electronic conductivity, good thermal stability, high density and high specific capacitance. Thin films of VN were prepared by D.C. reactive magnetron sputtering. The electrochemical stability of the films as well as the influence of dissolved oxygen in 1 M KOH electrolyte were investigated. In order to avoid material as well as electrolyte degradation, it was concluded that vanadium nitride should only be cycled between −0.4 and −1.0 V vs. Hg/HgO. After a 24 hours stabilization period, the prepared VN thin film showed an initial capacitance of 19 mF.cm −2 and a capacity retention of 96% after 10000 cycles. Furthermore, dissolved oxygen in the electrolyte was demonstrated to cause self-discharge up to a potential above −0.4 V vs. Hg/HgO, where VN was shown to be unstable. Additionally, the presence of oxygen was shown to shift the open circuit potential of a VN electrode to about 0 V through self-discharge processes. Electrochemical capacitors are currently being developed to complement other energy storage or conversion systems such as batteries and fuel cells. In the past two decades, several electrode materials have been investigated. The mostly studied materials include carbons, 1-8 conducting polymers 9-12 as well as pseudocapacitive 13 transition metal oxides such as ruthenium dioxide 14-18 and manganese dioxide. [19][20][21][22][23][24] In the effort to improve the performance of electrochemical capacitors, a widely used approach has been to develop synthetic methods to develop nanomaterials that are believed to lead to increased energy density and higher rate capability. 14,23,[25][26][27][28] Another approach has been to investigate the charge storage properties of novel materials. Accordingly, several research groups considered materials such as MXenes 29,30 and transition metal nitrides. [31][32][33][34][35][36][37] In the latter class of compounds, molybdenum nitride was firstly investigated 32,33,35,38,39 and in the past decade a great deal of attention has focused on other nitrides with an intensive focus on vanadium nitride 37,40-58 as a consequence of the impressive capacitance of 1340 F.g −1 reported for nanosized VN particles in 1 M KOH. 58 Indeed, VN is an interesting electrode material due to this high reported specific capacitance coupled with its close to metallic electronic conductivity (1.18 S.m −1 ), 59 high density (6.13 g.cm −3 ) and high melting point (2619 K). 59The hypothesis proposed by Choi et al.58 to explain such a high specific capacitance of VN, is that, in addition to electrochemical double layer capacitance, successive fast reversible redox reactions are taking place, involving surface oxide groups and OH − ions from the electrolyte. This hypothesis was supported by the observation of surface oxide via ex-situ XPS 58 and FTIR 41,58 post cycling measurements.While most studies concentrated on new synthesis of VN with the goa...

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Recent advances in metal nitrides as high-performance electrode materials for energy storage devices

Abstract: This review highlights the progress and development of metal nitrides as electrode materials for energy storage devices.

Cited by 409 publications

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All Metal Nitrides Solid‐State Asymmetric Supercapacitors

All Metal Nitrides Solid‐State Asymmetric Supercapacitors

Improvement of TiN nanoparticles EPD inducing steric stabilization in non-aqueous suspensions

Suitable Conditions for the Use of Vanadium Nitride as an Electrode for Electrochemical Capacitor

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